O BAI
So long, Winston. Be sure to let those bastards know if you need a helicopter for the ride home, yeah?…
Voted eccellente!
Went out and voted this morning. Made up my mind who to vote for about 5 mins before walking into the voting .. place. We had lunch at a new cafe down the road, which does all kinds of italian food. I had pizza and it was GREAT, so surely they…
The lesser of two evils
I’m not really sure how to vote. I’m kinda pissed off at Labour over the extraordinarily cynical exercise of the EFA, I’m definitely pissed off at them over this whole “ISPs have to disconnect customers based solely on accusations of copyright infringement” thing (which appears to be…
"Harmonix tech support, The Doctor speaking."
So, we had some woes with Rock Band and our new LCD TV today – we tried to ROCK OUT with it, only to find that there were serious timing issues with drum fills, and as we found out later, also with the vocal tracks. The drum fills are where instead…
Bawk-bawk-BAWK!
I wrote the following stuff on a local web forum and I have since been told I should repost it here. This is a response to a forum user that’s a fan of the Sword of Truth series of books by Terry Goodkind, and was bemoaning the shittyness of…
First Richard Hammond ... now THIS.
Everyone who just crashed their car, take a step back. Not so fast, me!…
I laughed. Then I felt bad for laughing.
Stuff.co.nz ran an article on the cause of the tragic death of toddler Nia Glassie. The headline was “Force killed Nia, says pathologist.” My friend peterfitz commented on it thusly .. [09:19] Anakin! Nooooooo! [09:19] The younglings! He is a Bad Bad Man. A funny man, but…
Oh No, It's The Pigs!
I have a meeting on Wednesday morning at the headquarters of the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. At this meeting I, in the capacity of an ISP technical rep, will be given a demonstration of the software the NZ rights holders will be using to identify infringement of copyright…